Ridley Scott And Fuji TV Team For Japan Per Day

The main one-year anniversary from the Japanese earthquake and tsunami is March 11. In memory from the disaster, Fuji Television and Ridley and Tony Scott’s Scott Free London are starting on Japan Per Day, a 24-hour self-portrait of the nation shot through the public in line with the Existence Per Day series. Beginning at night time March 11, participants will capture your day and upload footage to YouTube at world wide web.youtube.com/JapanInADay. Fuji will donate 200 cameras to individuals within the most impacted areas of the nation, and also the collected footage in addition to Fuji Televisions coverage in the day may also be posted.Fuji TV intends to choose the very best material to accomplish an element, that will debut at movie theaters worldwide. All profits in the film will be presented to sufferers. Scott will executive make the project, because he did for that first installment within the series, that was directed by Kevin Macdonald and opened in the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Here’s that trailer:

Adele breaks more records

Adele's "21" ongoing to destroy records the other day, since the title assigned the 7 million sales plateau, set a SoundScan-era record for the days at No. 1 and notched the finest publish-Grammys sales increase in history.The Brit singer's Columbia album celebrated twelve several weeks round the U.S. charts having its finest sales week ever, moving 730,000 copies (up 207%), according to Nielsen SoundScan data for your week ended Feb. 19.Having its 21st nonconsecutive week at No. 1, "21" broke the last mark of 20 days within the pinnacle set by Whitney Houston's soundtrack for "The Bodyguard" in 1992-93. It matches a pre-SoundScan run of 21 chart-topping days by M.C. Hammer's "Please Hammer Don't Hurt Them" in 1990.Gain for Adele's collection surpassed the 621,000-unit bump received by Norah Jones' "Leave Beside MeInch after her five-Grammy win in 2003.By 50 Percent chart days since the Feb. 12 Grammys ceremony -- where Adele needed home six honours, including album, record and song of year -- "21" has offered 968,000 copies. It's moved 7.35 million copies inside the U.S. so far.Adele's 2008 debut "19" gains five slots relating to this week's chart, rising to No. 4 with 87,000 offered.Grieving fans pressed Houston's "Finest Hits" (Arista/The brand new the new sony Music) up four slots to No. 2. The late vocalist's collection acquired 174% the other day, selling 175,000.Compilations complete the most effective five: the Capitol-distributed "Now 41" collection held steady at No. 3 with 94,000 offered (lower 33%), while Universal's "2012 Grammy Nominees" package acquired three steps, taking No. 5 with 85,000 offered (up 66%),Last week's major entry, Van Halen's "Another kind of Truth" (Interscope), slid four positions to No. 6, losing 69% and selling 58,000.Relaxation in the top is finished by artists enjoying useful advantages of Grammycast exposure: Paul McCartney's "Kisses in the baseInch (No. 7, 58,000 offered, lower 22%), Bruno Mars' "Doo Wops and Hooligans" (No. 8, 37,000, up 133%), Lady Antebellum's "Own the Evening" (No. 9, 37,000, up 47%) as well as the Civil Wars' "Barton Hollow" (No. 10, 36,000, up 178%). Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Robert Downey Junior. may have carried out Lex Luthor in McG's Superman

When Warner Bros were toing and froing over precisely how to produce Superman towards the silver screen at the begining of noughties, there's a stage where Micrograms was poised to direct his undertake the man Of Steel. The director recently gave the interview for the Playlist, through which he elaborates on his vision for your project, which apparently involved Robert Downey Junior. as Lex Luthor.The Charlie's Angels helmer had create a reboot entitled Superman: Flyby, and was prepared to film until Warner and Micrograms fell out inside the studio's desiire to shoot the film australia wide to have the ability to reduce money. Rather, the studio switched to Bryan Singer, and Superman Returns was produced.Now, Micrograms has revealed just what we are in a position to have observed in the script put together with a youthful J.J. Abrams..."We'd Robert Downey Junior. guaranteed being Lex Luthor," according to him, "that people think might have been amazing. Ironically, we loved Henry Cavill a good deal, but we'd not cast him yet. J.J. written the script, which we've got that for an excellent place ultimately. However I am responsible [for your film not happening]."Apparently, Scarlett Johansson and Selma Blair were in predicts play Lois Lane, while Shia Labeouf reaches place to experience Jimmy Olsen. Your mind boggles... Zack Snyder's Guy Of Steel opens in the usa on 14 This summer time 2013.

VIDEO: Smash Star Megan Hilty States Ivy Is Going To Do Almost anything to Win the Role of Lana Turner

Megan Hilty and Debra Playing What lengths will Smash's Ivy Lynn visit win negligence Lana Turner? "She's dying to create that next thing and she's prepared to do nearly anything to get it done,Inch Megan Hilty informs TVGuide.com. "Many people [also known as Ivy] go just a little farther than the others.Inch Decoding Mount McPhee: Could it be a Smash spoiler? Hilty stars within the NBC series opposite Katharine McPhee, who plays Karen Cartwright, an ingénue also competing for that coveted role. "You'll discover who will get it first soon,Inch Hilty states, emphasizing the term "first" and implying that that casting might not be permanent. "The one thing about creating a musical is you can and will also be exchangeable really rapidly." Watch below: Smash airs Mondays at 10/9c on NBC.

Why the glut of showbiz southpaws?

Director John Madden, above with Tena Desae, says left-handed people are very aware of the whole, of the big picture. In an election year, you will repeatedly hear politicians claim that showbiz is a hotbed of lefties.In one sense, they're wrong: The conglomerates that own the studios and networks tend to be right-leaning. But in another sense, the leftie accusations are accurate: Showbiz is overrun with southpaws.If left-handed people comprise only 10% of the population, why were 50% of the Beatles left-handed (Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr)? And lefties are disproportionate in categories like execs (Jeffrey Katzenberg, Brad Grey, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates), filmmakers (James Cameron, Spike Lee, Ken Burns), top female stars (Angelina Jolie, Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Lawrence, Scarlett Johansson), and late-night comedy hosts (Jon Stewart, Jay Leno).The roster of southpaws is eclectic, including Matt Groening, Hugh Jackman, Patrick Whitesell, Julianne Moore, Matt Lauer, Adam Venit, Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Hilary Swank, Will Ferrell, Jerry Seinfeld, Sid Ganis, Steven Bochco, Lisa Kudrow, Henry Selick, Donald De Line, Eminem and Seth Rogen.So, is it safe to assume that left-handed people are more creative and somehow superior? We lefties would like you to believe that, but the rollcall also includes Billy the Kid, Jack the Ripper, John Dillinger and the Boston Strangler.Clearly, it's not a matter of better or worse, just ... different.Before he discovered his directing talents, John Madden was a thesp. He told me, "As an actor, I thought 'Oh, no, this (career) won't do for a left-handed person.' Left-handed people are very aware of the whole, of the big picture."The director of "Shakespeare in Love" and "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" (which had its world premiere in London this week) says he studied the connection between the brain and hands when working on Arthur Kopit's play "Wings," about a woman's stroke and its aftermath. Right-handed people are controlled by the left hemisphere of the brain, which manages speech and logic -- "crucial activities to get through life," says Madden.Lefties, on the other hand, are ruled by the right hemisphere, "which has all the intuitive, whole, overview functions."That might explain the number of performers who also work in other territories like writing and producing: Whoopi Goldberg, Tina Fey, Ben Stiller, Griffin Dunne, Tony Goldwyn, Emma Thompson, et al.And then there are nuances. Christopher Nolan told me he writes with his left hand, but brushes his teeth with his right. Ambidextrous? That term seems a little too prosaic for him. Like many of the other names here, the man behind "Inception," "Memento" and the upcoming "The Dark Knight Rises" is clearly too original and creative to be confined by easy classifications.Five of the last six Presidents have been left-handed: Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton and now Barack Obama. The right-handed Commander in Chief: George W. Bush. (And, yes, politics counts as showbiz. And no, we won't make a cheap joke at the expense of righties here.)Left-handed athletes? We don't have space to get into that.The late, lamented list of southpaws include Cole Porter, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and two people who were key to the creation of showbiz as we know it: Thomas Edison and Charlie Chaplin.So are there disadvantages to being left-handed? In the book "Left-Hander Syndrome," Stanley Coren cites medical studies saying lefties "seem to be more anxious about nearly everything," and that being a southpaw is "linked to a number of factors that might be associated with reduced survivability" -- sleep problems, possible neurological damage, some forms of diabetes, epilepsy, alcoholism, and "certain psychopathological conditions, such as schizophrenia."Despite the stellar athletes, studies show that lefties tend to be clumsy. (I admit, guilty as charged.)And southpaws have a tendency to complete 90% of a job and then abandon it -- for example, doing the dishes, but leaving two glasses in the sink, unwashed, for no good reason. (Again, guilty.)OK, dirty dishes, high anxiety and Jack the Ripper: Clearly, leftism is not necessarily a good thing. Still, they're offset by Thomas Edison, half the Beatles and Bart Simpson (did we mention that Bart is a lefty?). So being on that lefty list feels so ... right. Contact Timothy M. Gray at tim.gray@variety.com

'Insidious' follow-up inside the works

'Insidious' will be a surprise hit a year ago, producing $54 million within the domestic box office.An "Insidious" follow-up is along the way concentrating on the same creative team aboard.Wayne Wan is at predicts direct again with Leigh Whannell aboard to script. Jason Blum will again produce through his Blumhouse Prods. shingle with John Kavanaugh Manley, Oren Peli and Steven Schneider professional creating.The follow-up -- which get into production later this year for just about any 2013 release -- will probably be funded by Alliance Films which funded the initial film."Insidious" will be a surprise hit a year ago with $54 million in domestic cume since the first title from FilmDistrict and $155 million worldwide.The first "Insidious," getting a $1.5 million budget, starred Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne being a parent facing the demons that possessed their youthful boy. Wan and Whannell are keeping the plot in the follow-up under systems."Insidious" was acquired through the new the new sony Pictures Worldwide Purchases within the 2010 Toronto Intt. Film Festival. SPWA has acquired U.S. rights for the film together with FilmDistrict.FilmDistrict will distribute the film within the united states . States, with Alliance disseminating in Canada, the Uk (via its Momentum Pictures subsidiary) and also the country (via Aurum), and also the new the new sony Pictures Worldwide Purchases disseminating the relaxation from the worldwide areas."For me that James Wan which i accomplished that which you set to complete -- create a horror film for horror fans," Whannell mentioned. "Therefore it is with great excitement that individuals announce our persistence for another installment from the story. Us think that we could mine more terror on the planet we created and understand that whenever we assemble everyone within the initial team, we'll include an incredible continuation in the story for fans in the first film." Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com